The 3 Amigos ride again

For Tuesdays ride the 3 Amigos met at Tim Roche's house where we were served a nice cup of coffee once Tim had worked out how to operate the Cafetiere. Tim was team leader today and the plan was for 26 miles around Oxfordshire. To Sally's and my surprise we Cycled past no less than 7 really nice looking pubs without a peep from Tim, we were beginning to think he may be unwell, but he told us that he had a pub in mind for lunch.
Then a very exciting thing happened, we saw the first plane in the skies for almost 6 days.







After stopping to take a picture we continued and I got a bit left behind as we started up what we had been promised was the only hill on the route "Boars Hill" this turned out to be a lie, but it was the steepest climb of the day but fairly short.







At the top of Boars Hill we stopped for a breather and a photo oportunity with Oxford in the distance, before continuing on over some pleasantly undulating countryside.
( I have little idea where we were as this is not my neck of the woods and Sally and Tim were reluctant to write this blog)









We then got a little lost on the way to Abbingdon where Tim had promised us a great pub for lunch, but he had left his route plan at home and we ended up here, I think it was a football pub as sky sports was on two giant screens and they were busy putting up a large St George cross flag and some bunting, however they served an acceptable lunch and a decent pint.












After lunch I had to whimper a bit to get everyone to agree that we also needed a mars bar for extra energy to get home, I was right though as the wind was against us all the way back, and another challenge for Tim when we got there, how to make peppermint tea.
We ended up doing about 28 miles due to the slight unplanned change of route.
Could someone also tell Tim these are saddle covers not hats!!!